Why Donald Trump’s Secretary of State Might Actually Stand Up for LGBT Rights

The Daily Beast ^ | 12.15.16 | Jay Michaelson

[Salman]

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His record has both pro-LGBT and anti-LGBT elements to it.

In 2013, Tillerson successfully urged the Boy Scouts of America to allow gay scouts to participate. This was a matter of personal importance to Tillerson, an Eagle Scout and recent president of the BSA from 2010 to 2012. As reported in The Dallas Morning News, according to a close confidant, Tillerson’s opinion on the matter came as a result of personal prayer and reflection.

“He agonized over this,” the confidant said. “He prayed on it, and ultimately he came to the conclusion the only thing that can guide him here is what’s best for the young boys.”

It’s easy to forget, from the vantage point of 2016, that this was a divisive, bitter battle only three years ago; indeed, one of Tillerson’s chief opponents at the time was Texas Gov. Rick Perry, perhaps his future colleague in the Trump Cabinet.

That’s why Tony Perkins, the headline-seeking firebrand who heads the Family Research Council, blasted the Tillerson nomination from the right wing, accusing him of “risking the well-being of young boys under his charge in an attempt to placate radical homosexual activists.” It’s hard to know whether to take Perkins seriously; he is a longtime bomb-thrower with a penchant for outrageous hyperbole. Still, his opposition is, for progressives, encouraging.

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[Ann Archy]

CRAP!! ENOUGH OF GAY CRAP!! GAY EVERYWHERE!!! GAY EVERYTHING!!! I’m SICK of it.

[max americana]

Now we know why Kerry was Ok with Tillerson. Rex is a fag lover. PUKE

[DiogenesLamp]

“He agonized over this,” the confidant said. “He prayed on it, and ultimately he came to the conclusion the only thing that can guide him here is what’s best for the young boys.”

The only thing that can guide him is following the urging of all the pop celebrities and elite-class pseudo-moralizers out there instead of thousands of years of Judeo-Christian teachings.

Not too smart.

[DoodleDawg]

The Secretary of State will follow the policies of the administration. He won’t stand up for LGBT rights unless he’s told to. And why would Trump build his foreign policy around that?

[bimboeruption]

Me too!

If I turn on the TV, radio, read newspapers, blogs, etc...I’m FORCED to hear about or see this crap.

I’m sick of having perversion shoved down my throat. Can’t we set America’s standards higher?

[Thibodeaux]

Queers do have rights

Queers have a right to a closet light

[DesertRhino]

““He prayed on it, and ultimately he came to the conclusion the only thing that can guide him here is what’s best for the young boys.””

He prayed, and then subjected boys to faggotry.

[CodeToad]

They have no special “rights” They are mentally ill. We need to stop encouraging mental illness.

[Bob434]

Exactly, one has to wonder what his prayer to God was like? “Dear Lord- I think we should allow people who commit an abomination in your site to be in charge of children without supervision- what say You Lord? Isn’t that the ‘humane’ thing to do? Ok Then- I’ll support them Having positions of power over little children- what could possibly go wrong when your enemies take care of children?”

[Leep]

All of white America is either Klansmen or Neonazis and or want to otherwise kill or enslave homos and black people?
Meanwhile at Plan Parenthood...

[farming pharmer]

Willie Sutton: “Because that’s where the money is”
Rex Tillerson: “Because that’s where the boys are”

[cba123]

“This was a matter of personal importance to Tillerson, an Eagle Scout and recent president of the BSA from 2010 to 2012. “

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Well this Life Scout (one level below Eagle) completely disagrees with that.

I am VERY disappointed with the Boy Scouts.

They in my humble opinion, utterly sold out. And I really don’t think this guy should be blabbering on this way.

I am all for gay rights, but not in the Boy Scouts.

I am just not in favor of this. Completely, and totally, opposed.

[Fiddlstix]

DITTO!
DITTO!
DITTO!

[Cicero]

I may be wrong, but I think he probably drew the line in the right place.

“Tillerson successfully urged the Boy Scouts of America to allow gay scouts to participate.”

In other words, he didn’t support gay scoutmasters, but the right of gay scouts to join the organization. I would go further and say that I agree, as long as those scouts do not attempt to seduce other scouts. As long as they keep their being gay to themselves.

[mazda77]

Not only that, it has nothing to do with the job. NOTHING!

[Aarchaeus]

Don’t hold your breath waiting for this crap to stop. Society has recognized that they have rights, just as everybody else has. What they are demanding now is approval of their perversion.

[Hot Tabasco]

Secretary of State Might Actually Stand Up for LGBT Rights

Rex is a fag lover. PUKE

What hasn't yet been reported is that REX prefers cats to dogs.......

REX IS A CAT LOVER!!!!!

Excuse me for chiming in but we definitely have to call in the reinforcements............

[Stayfree]

Tillerson is a seasoned business executive who understood that the gays and liberals who have successfully used conservative laws against us over the last 50 years, would ultimately financially destroy the Boy Scouts with endless litigation and using good business judgment decided that the Boy Scouts should not be financially destroyed. As a former Executive Director of 4 large and important law firms, I know exactly what the Boy Scouts were facing and I agree with Tillerson's decision.

For you disbelievers about this man, there was a thread on FR in the last 2 weeks from a woman who sat on a jury with Tillerson (who btw was elected Jury Foreman) who resisted a potential hung jury in a child abuse case and managed to convict the bastard who abused a young girl. The woman who authored the thread chose to follow the young girl who was in therapy. The author found out that the non-profit providing therapy for the young girl needed more funding. The author found Tillerson's email and asked him to help the charity. Within a few days, the head of the charity contacted the author to let her know that the charity had received a huge anonymous donation! Think on that for a few moments before writing off Tillerson before he even starts!

[riverdawg]

Correct. LGBT issues are not in the SecState’s portfolio of responsibilities.